Although proven to work, WY high value wildlife crossing projects failed to get funding-

It is especially sad to see pronghorn crossing projects at Trapper’s Point near Pinedale denied. This bottleneck is a huge threat to the semi-annual, thousands-of-year-old trek of pronghorn to Jackson Hole and the Tetons from the Red Desert and back.

This is pretty sad considering that 1000s of acres of public land has been opened to drilling in Wyoming alone, let alone other states. And none of the revenues from these minuscule drilling fees can’t be kicked back to this project which benefits so many (animals and people).

With this decision, the critics of sending federal funding to rural (red) states will have one less objection. Not sure how the federal stimulus funds get allocated over all the states with some sort of equitable distribution, but it is for certain that wildlife caused human injury on highways, appears not to be a priority.

One would wonder, if WY had made a more modest request – something less than $100M, say a third of that – whether a targeted project might have been more favorably reviewed.